Jennifer Atkinson Author

Jennifer Atkinson (Author)
Jennifer Atkinson published five books of poetry before A Gray Realm the Ocean, most recently The Thinking Eye and Canticle of the Night Path, both from Free Verse Editions/ Parlor Press. She is recently retired from George Mason University, where she taught in the MFA and BFA programs in Poetry Writing. She lives in northern Virginia.
Patricia Spears Jones (Foreword By)
Patricia Spears Jones is the author of five books of poetry, including Painkiller, Femme du
Monde, and The Weather That Kills. Her work has been featured in numerous anthologies, including Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama’s First 100 Days, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, and Best American Poetry. She has taught at LaGuardia Community College and Queens College CCNY, Parsons, The New School, and the College of New Rochelle.